HHR New Media, Entertainment and Technology Group

As part of the DCIA’s “Content in the Cloud” conference, Wayne will take part in a panel discussion entitled “The Impact on Telecommunications Industries of Cloud Computing.”  The discussion will focus on how cloud computing intiatives impact broadband network providers and their ability to manage their IP, utilize network resources and provision new services.  Joining Wayne on the panel are executives from Acumen Solutions, CSG Systems, Level 3 Communications, Numagic Consulting, Scayl, Verizon Digital Media Services and Virtustream. 

DCIA, the Distributed Computing Industry Association, is an international trade organization focused on commercial advancement of cloud computing and related technologies.  “Content in the Cloud” is part of the 2012 International CES trade show, being held in Las Vegas from January 10 through 13.  CES is the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow.  More information on the conference is available here.

Matt Syrkin will be presenting and producing a panel for the New York Chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA titled “Copyright and Content in the Cloud”  featuring Dan Schnapp as a moderator and other prominent practitioners. The panel, scheduled for September 15, 2011, will tackle the critical legal issues raised by the expansion of cloud computing and explore how stakeholders can balance the need to comply with evolving laws, standards and court decisions with the need to exploit new technological advancements that lead to improved services and enhanced user experiences. Continue Reading »

The Entertainment Consumers Association gave a shout out to the Firm, including Dan, for assisting in the amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court in connection with the recent case in which California’s video game law was struck down.   Our detailed post about the case is here.

On September 21, the DigitalHHR team will be presenting “Whose Data Is It Anyway: Privacy and Data Security in a De-centralized Digital World”, the next in its on-going series of live, CLE-accredited webinars.  As individuals increasingly rely on mobile, cloud computing and social networking applications, they reveal more and more of their personal information which is in turn used to create more and more “personalized” services and applications. While the benefits of many of these services and applications is sometimes obvious, this environment has also revealed tensions between individuals’ rights to control their personal information and businesses’ need to use such information to enhance commercial opportunities.  In this CLE-accredited Webinar, we will focus on the critical legal and business issues and questions raised by the need to protect personally identifiable information (PII) of end users in a digital environment, both in the U.S. and abroad, and how businesses can balance compliance with applicable laws and regulations while exploiting advancements in technology that enable the use of personal information to improve their products and services. Our DigitalHHR team will be joined by a London-based colleague from the international law firm of Norton Rose to address topics including:

• Stakeholders’ responsibilities: does every entity with access to PII have the same obligations to consumers?
• Privacy policies and disclosure requirements
• EU privacy regulations and the impact on cross-border initiative

The Webinar will be held on Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT. To register, click here.